The television can capture attention in a way, and take you away from real life. I think it's become more true as a quality of human attention, that not necessarily so much for television, but I sometimes think that more and more of humankind spends their days looking at screens. Meanwhile, kids are neglected, spouses are neglected, relationships, families, everything's neglected, we're looking at the screen. And whether it's the internet now, or whether it's DVD's, iPods, whatever it is, we're not, we're not in the present; we're in the image.

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:05:13

0:05:33

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:05:31

0:05:46

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:05:43

0:06:34

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:05:58

0:07:42

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:06:32

0:06:50

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:06:43

0:12:57

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:06:48

0:07:08

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:07:06

0:07:23

Dufus

Anouk

In Monstrous Attitude

2009

0:07:14

0:07:45

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:07:39

0:16:48

Alan Watts

Intellectual Yoga

Philosophies of Asia

0:07:48

0:07:51

Alan Watts

Intellectual Yoga

Philosophies of Asia

0:07:54

0:08:14

So long as you can be pursuaded that there's something more that you ought to be than you are, you've divided yourself from reality, from the universe, from god, or whatever you want to call that.

Big City Orchestra

A Child's Garden of Noise

A Child's Garden of Noise

1994

0:08:19

0:08:52

...I wish there was a sign that said, "noise, please." Yes, maybe there ought to be a sign like that.

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:08:46

0:10:09

Valentino Sound Effects Library

Air - Air conditioner

Volume 8

0:09:24

1:08:57

Gundecha Brothers

Hum Sab Mahi - Raga Bhairavi

Hum Sab Mahi

2009

0:09:31

0:20:42

Bill Nelson

The Spirit Cannot Fail

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window

1987

0:10:12

0:12:19

Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate truth.

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:10:27

0:17:58

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:11:05

0:11:15

Fleetwood Mac

Everywhere

Tango in the Night

1988

0:11:19

0:12:16

11 middle everywhere loop

Pete Townshend

You're So Clever

Scooped

1980

0:11:45

0:11:55

Fleetwood Mac

Gypsy

Mirage

1982

0:12:14

0:12:53

Gypsy loop

M.

On UVA bookstore

2012

0:12:44

0:17:40

What the guys and girls buy on their parents' accounts, unitemized

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:13:10

0:19:36

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:14:23

0:15:08

Orson Welles

Videotape TV static

0:15:50

0:22:02

Orson Welles

Interview

0:16:17

0:16:36

If they don't like what you do, really...I was going to show them that they were wrong, and I've spent the rest of my life showing people, trying to prove that what is said is wrong, and that's been an enormous waste of spirit and of energy.

There's a price, no matter what you do, there's going to be a price. So, you know what you do? You find out what's important and you make boxes. And in this box, you have what it takes to work with somebody like Miles, and in this box, you have what you take home to Janey and to Hope, that's how you get through. So, that's the key to happiness, a little self-induced schizophrenia? ... You want to have a life here, today, then pick your fights and learn to compromise.

Ricky Gervais

You don't need everyone on the planet to like you

Time Interview

2007

0:22:27

0:22:45

More people hate it than like it. Obviously. Luckily, you don't need everyone on the planet to like you. So, you do it for you and like-minded people

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:22:51

0:23:36

...By saying that everyone likes the grid plan, you're saying I'm going to relive all the mistakes my parents made. I'm going to identify and relive all the sorrows my mother ever lived through. I will propagate and create dysfunctional children in the same dysfunctional way that I was raised. I will spread neurosis throughout the landscape and do my best to recreate myself and the damages of my life for the next generation.

I don't believe there is any wisdom in compromise, unless you're a politician. And to the extent that movies are politics, I don't belong in movies. I cannot compromise. When I do something which is compromised, it is poorer than a second-rate director's picture. My pictures don't work at all unless they work my way. It's not because I think they're better that way; they simply fall apart unless they're done my way.

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Working for a living

The Cruise

1998

0:25:18

0:26:28

One of the great tragedies of this experiment called civilization is the fact that people have to work for a living...

Look around you. How did America get this way? Land of promise, land of opportunity. Give us the wretched refuse of your teaming shores. Have a Coke, watch TV, have a nice day, go on welfare, get free money, turn to crime (crime pays in this country). Why do they put up with it? Why do they keep coming? Look around you, Charlie: This place is a toilet.

We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty, we buy what we don't need, and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong, wrong, wrong.

It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence. Why do things get worse and worse? They don't have to; they can get better and better. We accept that things fall apart, but they don't have to. Things can last forever.

..can't live without all this goddamn noise. Maybe I need the noise to write poems, make love and eat. I'm going to hang a sign out my window that says, "more noise, please," or, "thank you for making noise." Maybe we are the kind of people who need to have what we don't want just to get along, to do the basic things... Myself, I could not sleep last night. I could not close the window, either. I tried to tear the window out of its frame.

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

0:30:07

0:30:51

...the grid plan emanates from our weakness

Joe Frank

Grace requires degradation

Another Country Pt. 3

1986

0:31:04

0:31:10

...to have so much beauty, perhaps you have to have this much degradation

Ida

My Fair, My Dark

My Fair, My Dark

2006

0:33:23

0:36:34

Various loops

Joe Frank

Hamburger paper waste

Another Country Pt. 3

1986

0:33:48

0:34:02

The hamburger is made. 30 seconds later it's been wrapped in paper, which is put in a box. 15 seconds later, that box has been put in a bag with a napkin, and 10 minutes after that, the bag...

Fridge

Lost Time

The Sun

2007

0:35:35

0:47:46

Various loops

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Running from the cops all my life

The Cruise

1998

0:36:05

0:36:48

...According to them I was running from the cops for a month before they caught up to me. ...and I felt like a fugitive. But you know what? Every day I feel like a fugitive. It never occurred to them that I am running from the anti-cruise every day. And when I was up in front of the judge for my arraignment, the judge said my biggest problem with this case is that this guy, this current person we're judging, ran from the police for a month. And if I could've spoken, of course I wasn't allowed to speak, I would've said, it's been a lot more than a month. I've been running from you people all my life, all my life, and I'm going to keep running.

Gundecha Brothers

Hum Sab Mahi - Raga Bhairavi

Hum Sab Mahi

2009

0:38:43

0:38:48

Dufus

Anouk

In Monstrous Attitude

2009

0:39:32

0:40:03

Belle and Sebastian

Storytelling

Storytelling

2002

0:40:09

0:40:49

02 1st piano loop

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:43:29

0:43:33

Malcolm Clarke

Romanescan Rout

The Radiophonic Workshop

1975

0:45:04

0:45:45

Or perhaps 2002 remaster

Bill Nelson

The Spirit Cannot Fail

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window

1987

0:47:12

0:48:53

Belle and Sebastian

Storytelling

Storytelling

2002

0:47:36

0:48:59

02 1st piano loop

The Carpenters

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

Passage

1977

0:48:23

0:50:08

Like a Disney cult song. Cover of 1976 Klaatu song.

La Dusseldorf

Rheinita

La Dusseldorf / Viva

2005

0:48:54

0:50:27

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:49:08

0:53:13

Toto

Rosanna

Toto IV

1982

0:49:57

0:50:01

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:50:17

0:52:01

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:50:34

0:54:41

Malcolm Clarke

Romanescan Rout

The Radiophonic Workshop

1975

0:50:46

0:50:50

Or perhaps 2002 remaster

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:50:59

0:51:08

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:51:09

0:51:55

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

0:51:55

0:55:29

Simon and Garfunkel

The Sound of Silence

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

1964

0:52:22

0:52:23

Simon only, thanks to Steve Fitch, Dec. 2011

Michael Crichton

TV captures attention, people spend their lives staring at screens

Looker (1981) director commentary

2007

0:52:34

0:52:48

The television can capture attention in a way, and take you away from real life.

Fleetwood Mac

Sara

Tusk

1979

0:53:15

0:53:29

Loop

Bill Nelson

The Spirit Cannot Fail

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights- (1) The Angel at the Western Window

1987

0:53:20

0:59:54

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Requiem Introitus

Amadeus s.t.

1984

0:54:26

0:56:17

Backwards

Fleetwood Mac

Sara

Tusk

1979

0:54:41

1:06:17

11 main going loop

Jonny Greenwood

Open Spaces

There Will Be Blood s.t.

2007

0:56:35

0:59:58

The Feelies

When Company Comes

The Good Earth

1986

0:57:02

0:57:06

better fast go guitar loop,offset

Neil Young

Down By the River

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

1969

0:57:17

0:59:15

Various loops

Bob Dylan

Series of Dreams

1989

0:58:57

1:03:35

Various loops

Ida

My Fair, My Dark

My Fair, My Dark

2006

0:59:07

0:59:51

05 short down loop w drum

Tom Cruise (actor), Paul Thomas Anderson (writer/director)

I will not apologize for who I am

Magnolia

1999

1:01:23

1:01:30

I will not apologize for what I need, I will not apologize for what I want

Cat Stevens

If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

Harold and Maude s.t.

1971

1:02:54

1:04:47

Loop

Cat Stevens

The Wind

Teaser and the Firecat / Rushmore s.t.

1971

1:04:04

1:04:13

02 guitar loop

Cat Stevens

If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

Harold and Maude s.t.

1971

1:04:19

1:05:25

Fridge

Harmonics

Happiness

2001

1:05:04

1:08:53

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

1:05:33

1:05:39

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

The grid plan

The Cruise

1998

1:06:30

1:08:32

Ken

Live ambient street sound

2012

1:08:53

1:09:25

Working Titles:

and do my best to recreate myselflooking at screensself-induced schizophreniathe grid planwhy sell a man what he wants?the decadence of obsolescenceI'm going to keep runningkeep runningaligning herself with this civilizationi can't imagine changing my mind on anythingi can't imagine having my own identityimagine having my own identity